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A pair of worn-in brown boots stand on a patch of green grass.

Footprints and fingerprints: Reflections on a shoe-forming press from the Kingston Penitentiary

A cartoon-style drawing depicts books, flowers, and animals. A large letter “B” represents the theme of biodiversity. The words “Sept. 21-27, 2020” is visible in the bottom, right-hand corner of the image.

Science Literacy Week offers online learning opportunities

A close up a burger patties, a diagram of the sun during the solstices and equinoxes, and a satellite image of the Milne Ice Shelf

3 things you should know about cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and Canada’s last ice shelf

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Imari Walker in lab coat and goggles

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Four students, two in green shirts, two in grey shirts, stand on both sides of a poster with their invention drawn on it. Materials for building their invention are scattered in front of them.

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield, wearing a white spacesuit and helmet.

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A religious painting of the Virgin Mary, surrounded by angels.

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The Canadian flag, set against the backdrop of a clear, blue lake and mountains in Banff National Park, Alberta.

Oh Canada! Let’s celebrate Canada Day together

Three young women sit in the cockpit of an aircraft; they are all looking back at the camera and smiling.

Finding the wings to fly: Aviation opens its doors for Nunavik youth

A wide-angle photo shows the Artifact Alley exhibition within the Canada Science and Technology Museum. A variety of artifacts are visible in cases on both sides of the image.

Augmented Alley: The future meets the past in museum’s new app

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One of the towed threshers designed and fabricated by Dion & Frère Incorporée of Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Québec. Anon., “Publicité – Dion & Frère Incorporée.” Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, September 1940, 47.

A century of agricultural technology and innovation in the Laurentides region of Québec: From Dion & Frère to Dion-AG

Rénald Fortier

Hey friend, say friend, come on over, my reading friend, how d’ya like to see some big threshers? Said threshers are in fact stored in the Collections Conservation Centre located within spitting distance of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario – a sister / brother institution of the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, in Ottawa – and of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in… Ottawa. What is a thresher, you ask? A good question. A thresher is an agricultural machine

A pair of worn-in brown boots stand on a patch of green grass.

Footprints and fingerprints: Reflections on a shoe-forming press from the Kingston Penitentiary

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Curating Under Quarantine

Jani Moreau, female flight attendant as imagined by Québec artist Nicole Lapointe. Anon., “Un nouvel illustré: Jani hôtesse de l’air.” Claire, 15 September 1960, cover.

She is not a waitress in the sky: Jani hôtesse de l’air and some words on the presence of female flight attendants in popular culture

Rénald Fortier

Hail, my reading friend. How are you on this day? If I may be permitted a quick introduction, do you like comics? Better yet, are you interested in the history of comics? I see ... It’s a shame because the topic of the week of our blog / bulletin / thingee is closely linked to this question. Did you know that the roman catholic church played a significant role in the history of Canadian / Québec aeronautical comics? That’s surprising, isn’t it? The publications of said church were intended to

A cartoon-style drawing depicts books, flowers, and animals. A large letter “B” represents the theme of biodiversity. The words “Sept. 21-27, 2020” is visible in the bottom, right-hand corner of the image.

Science Literacy Week offers online learning opportunities

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An infuriated Clara shredding the Curtiss biplane piloted by George F. Russell, Dongan Hills, New York, 10 September 1910. Anon., “La vache et l’aéroplane.” Le Petit Journal – Supplément illustrée, 25 September 1910, 312.

A close encounter of the strange and unusual kind, or, How did Clara the cow meet a Curtiss biplane in Staten Island, New York City, New York

Rénald Fortier

Back in 1989, during an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled Up the Long Ladder, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard, a Frenchman with a British accent (!! – Hello, EG!), walked into a cargo bay aboard the starship Enterprise to investigate a fire set by a group of lost colonists he had picked up, Patrick Stewart allegedly found the dialogue so hilarious that he began to laugh, albeit not too loudly. He actually turned his back to the camera to hide this lapse in concentration. When

A close up a burger patties, a diagram of the sun during the solstices and equinoxes, and a satellite image of the Milne Ice Shelf

3 things you should know about cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and Canada’s last ice shelf

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The first Douglas DC-3 airliner delivered to Trans-Canada Air Lines, Montreal (Dorval) Airport, Dorval, Québec, circa 1945-48. CASM, negative number 25515

A gleaming example of one of the most famous and significant aircraft of the 20th century: The Douglas DC-3 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Rénald Fortier

Hail, my reading friend. Eager as always to bring you news of the wonderful world of aviation, yours truly would like to remind you that, in September 1945, Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA), today’s Air Canada Incorporated, received its very first example of one of the most famous airliners of the 20th century, the Douglas DC-3. This outstandingly significant aircraft of national importance is presently on display at the awesome Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario. And yes, TCA was

3 things you should know about cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and Canada’s last ice shelf

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

The first Fleet Model 80 Canuck light / private airplane, Fort Erie, Ontario, March 1946. This aircraft belonged to Sturgeon Air Services Limited of Fredericton, New Brunswick. CASM, negative number KM-07962

Teaching to fly because it has wings: Canada’s Fleet Model 80 Canuck light / private airplane

Rénald Fortier

Let’s be original and daring today, my reading friend. Would you like to take a look at one of the aircraft in the prodigious collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario? No? Let me respectfully reject your reality and substitute my own. And yes, yours truly was paraphrasing Adam Whitney Savage. This co-host of the very popular Australian American (!) television series MythBusters presumably heard this sentence in the 1984 American fantasy / horror / science fiction

A Zenair CH-701 manufactured under license by Czech Aircraft Works Společnost s ručenim omezeným, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, July 2011. Wikimedia.

Born in a garage, but now all the world is a market for Zenair Limited: A look at the Cold War era designs of Christophe Jean Heintz, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Hello again, my reading friend whose health and well-being concerns me. How are you? Would you by any chance be ready to take up the thread of our overview of the activities of Zenair Limited, one of the giants in the design of homebuilt aircraft in Canada, if not North America? Wunderbar. A Colombian firm founded by a gentleman mentioned in the first part of this article, Máximo “Max” Tedesco, in 1971, Agrocopteros Limitada, assembled 10 or so kits of Zenair homebuilt aircraft in the early

A disassembled phone and a variety of parts and tools sit on a work bench.

My phone is blowing up! Dissecting technological artifacts for conservation treatment

Jessica Lafrance-Hwang

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Everyday artifacts like telephones are extraordinary when you dig deeper, as are most artifacts in the Ingenium collection! Check out this article to find out why and how conservators get an inside look at technological objects.

Christophe Jean Heintz at the controls of the Heintz Zenith. Anon., “–.” Aviation magazine international, 15 to 31 August 1970, cover.

Born in a garage, but now all the world is a market for Zenair Limited: A look at the Cold War era designs of Christophe Jean Heintz, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Hello, my reading friend, hello. Yours truly would like to touch on this day the history of one of the giants in the design of homebuilt aircraft in Canada, if not North America. I will do this through a photograph which adorned the cover of the 15 to 31 August 1970 issue of an excellent French biweekly magazine which has since disappeared, Aviation magazine international. This story had its origins in a decision taken in France in the early 1970s. This being said (typed?), yours truly prefers

A close up of a cow nose, a diagram of orbits within our solar system, and an electron microscope image of a bacteria

3 things you should know about eco-friendly cows, near Earth asteroids, and potential life on Mars

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the August edition, we tackle solutions for making cows more environmentally friendly, searching for near Earth asteroids, and how resilient life forms on Earth opens up the possibility of life on Mars.

A young woman sits on her luggage in an empty airport terminal, gazing off into the distance to the left of screen. She is alone and wearing a blue medical mask, with headphones draped around her neck.

Remembering the sounds of COVID-19